The elements of computer credibility
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Communication Technology: The New Media in Society
Communication Technology: The New Media in Society
Online Journalism: A Critical Primer
Online Journalism: A Critical Primer
Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (Digital Formations)
Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (Digital Formations)
Designing interactivity in media interfaces: a communications perspective
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A genre perspective on online newspaper front page design
Journal of Web Engineering
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This study investigates a range of traditional and technological factors that contribute to credibility perceptions for three categories of online news sources. These sources include mainstream (usatoday.com, nytimes.com), independent (thedrudgereport.com, axisoflogic.com), and index-type (news.google.com, yahoo.news.com) websites. While traditional dimensions of credibility remain influential, results suggest that the hypertextuality of index-type online news sources is of particular importance. Multimediality and interactivity did not influence credibility perceptions. These results support the perspective that online media differ based on credibility and users' perceptions are in part based on the technological affordances of media. A major contribution of this research lies in the empirical demonstration of the relationships between technological characteristics of various online news sources and subsequent credibility assessments. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.